Sure enough, the people who received those tubes, as opposed to conventional packages of chips, restricted the number of chips they ate at one sitting.
If you put ten times as many transistors on that wafer you will get ten times the number of chips so each chip will cost one tenth as much.
With no loss of performance Sony, for example, has gradually reduced the number of chips inside the PlayStation 2, cutting costs and enabling it to sell the consoles at a profit.
The first data results, published this month in Health Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, found that the students given the tubes with the marked chips ate on average half the number of chips as the students given the unmarked tubes.
We guess that makes sense since it has to fit into a standard SIM slot, but it's rocket science how they managed to fit all that circuitry into a board that tiny -- in fact, we were shown an x-ray view of the card, and the number of chips, resistors, and miscellaneous pieces of technology in there is nothing short of mind-bending.
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Back in early 2012 this blog predicted that with 19-20 nm lithography flash memory the same number of flash chips that provided 64 GB of storage capacity could give 128 GB of capacity.
Over the past four quarters, the number of ARM-based chips inside smartphones have increased from 1.9 to 2.1 to 2.4 to 2.7.
The composites are also likely to see applications in enhancing the storage capacity of CDs and DVDs and in increasing the number of circuits that can fit on computer chips.
National Semiconductor recruited him and gave him a number of jobs over the next 20 years, including head of logic chips and of quality control.
Intel is already increasing the number of factories that employ the 22 nanometer manufacturing process and is starting the transition to 14 nanometer chips.
And to get in on the action, investors are acting like gamblers in Macau, standing six-deep at the roulette wheel and throwing chips over the heads of those in front so that they land on a number on the table.
Analysts expect the problem to affect a number of gadgets that run on chips, capacitors or processors or incorporate sophisticated displays.
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That refers to the idea of having separate chips work together on number crunching -- and it's a driving force for the Intel processors in many laptops.
For example, instead of munching on a handful of potato chips, you can fill up on three handfuls of air-popped popcorn for the same number of calories.
With Apple using its chips in a number of iPods, the Scottish company just couldn't scale up to meet a sudden rush of demand.
At present, players receive a set number of chips for free every day, but the opportunity to put some sauce in the pot could be a tremendous monetisation opportunity.
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Just weeks after Intel announced that it would be releasing Core i5 and Core i7 chips for the mobile realm, the usual suspects have already outed a number of refreshed rigs that include said slabs of silicon.
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Chipsets are collections of chips that surround the main processor in a PC, and a shortage would limit the number of Duron PCs that can be sold.
In particular, this sensitivity makes the new chips better at searching for strands of DNA. At the moment, such searches require the number of DNA molecules in a sample to be multiplied using a trick called the polymerase chain reaction before there is a decent chance of detecting the target.
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